hledger-textual is a terminal-based interface for hledger, a plain-text accounting system. It provides a convenient way to manage financial records without repeatedly entering commands, while retaining the flexibility and transparency of text-based bookkeeping.
Built with Python and Textual, the application organises financial information into separate sections for transactions, accounts, budgets, recurring entries, reports and summaries. It uses hledger for the underlying accounting operations and works directly with journal files.
Unlike applications that simply display financial information, hledger-textual also provides tools for maintaining accounting records. Users can manage transactions, investigate spending, examine account balances and generate financial reports from a single interface.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Transaction management – add, edit, clone, move and delete transactions directly from the terminal interface.
- Account browsing – inspect account balances, navigate account hierarchies and drill down into individual transactions.
- Budget management – create and edit budgets, monitor spending and compare actual expenditure against planned amounts.
- Recurring transactions – define recurring rules and generate transactions according to their schedules.
- Financial reports – generate income statements, balance sheets, cash flow reports and custom reports.
- Multi-period analysis – compare financial results across different accounting periods.
- Investment tracking – monitor investment positions and market values.
- Multi-currency support – display balances in different commodities and perform conversions using available price information.
- Transaction searching – filter journal entries using account, description, amount and other criteria.
- Import and export – import transactions from CSV files and export financial information in CSV or PDF format.
- Journal synchronisation – supports Git-based synchronisation and configurable cloud synchronisation backends.
- Keyboard navigation – access application sections and common operations through keyboard shortcuts.
- Cross-platform support – runs on Linux and Windows.
Website: github.com/thesmokinator/hledger-textual
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Developer: Michele Broggi
License: MIT License
hledger-textual is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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